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Case Reports
. 2009 Mar 9:7:11.
doi: 10.1186/1476-7120-7-11.

A combination of left ventricular noncompaction and double orifice mitral valve

Xing-Xiang Wang  1 , Ze-Zhou Song
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Case Reports

A combination of left ventricular noncompaction and double orifice mitral valve

Xing-Xiang Wang et al. Cardiovasc Ultrasound. .

Abstract

A 24-year-old woman admitted with mild chest distress associated with activity without chest complaint for twenty days. Two orifices were visible at the level of the mitral valve with a transthoracic short-axis view of the two-dimensional and three-dimensional echocardiography. The left ventricle was mildly dilatated and the left ventricular wall was thickened, especially at the apex and anterolateral wall, and appeared sponge-like. There were numerous, excessively prominent trabeculations associated with intertrabecular recesses. Although the coexistence of NVM and DOMV could be a coincidence, we believe that both defects were probably caused by a developmental arrest of the left ventricular myocardium in the present case.

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Parasternal short-axis view shows double-orifice mitral valve by two-dimensional echocardiography.
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Parasternal short-axis view shows double-orifice mitral valve by three-dimensional echocardiography.
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Apical short-axis view shows numerous, excessively prominent trabeculations associated with intertrabecular recesses by two-dimensional echocardiography.
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